Grass roots ticket service grows first million

Grass roots ticket service grows first million

16.05.07

The Booth, the online ticketing service set up in 2005 to serve the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, has sold its first million pounds worth of tickets on behalf of cultural groups and organisations.

The news comes as plans to expand the successful Inverness-based ticketing service to serve the rest of Scotland are announced. The Booth website was established by HI-Arts, the arts development agency for the Highlands and Islands, to allow the region’s many events promoters, festivals and theatre companies to sell tickets online and reach a wider audience. It now sells tickets on behalf of hundreds of venues and events promoters, from village halls and community centres, through to major festivals such as Rockness, Belladrum Tartan Heart and The Outsider.

The service was piloted in the Highlands and Islands as a response to the needs of the grassroots cultural sector. It will now be available to cultural groups and organisations across Scotland, thanks to investment from the Scottish Arts Council and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. The Booth is targeted at small-scale, rural and voluntary-sector cultural groups and organisations to address the failure of other ticketing services to provide appropriate solutions for this sector.

Source: xPRESS Digest